This was made known to Irazoque during the meeting, and she was the only one who questioned him about whether the expressions of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in his morning conferences have an impact on the situation of vulnerability that this union is experiencing.
“The head of the Executive attacks journalists and certain media outlets daily in the morning and that is very important because it generates a position of hatred towards certain journalists and media outlets. What is the position that the Mechanism has to take? It is contradictory that the Mechanism has to take care of journalists and this part of the administration (the president) is hitting them”, he questioned.
Irazoque separated the presidential action from the impact on the work of journalists, and asked federal deputies “not to politicize.”
“The reflections, discussions or messages that are sent in the Mexican government have nothing to do with the situation of vulnerability that journalists and human rights defenders live in,” he assured.
This is because the most vulnerable are not the journalists or the people who practice that profession from the big cities, but those who are in Guerrero, Chiapas, Tamaulipas in the coverage of complex situations, according to its conclusion.
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The truth is that data from the Protection Mechanism indicates, and the same official reported it, that between 40 and 45% of the attacks experienced by communicators are by municipal authorities. And in Mexico, more than 95% of the authorities at that level of government are linked to parties, that is, the attacks already have a political overtone.
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